Belgium, UK, USA connived and assassinated Lumumba, hacked him into pieces, dissolved his body into acid and took his teeth to Brussels, simply because he was struggling for Congo independence. These are the same people that want to lecture us about human rights and democracy.

People often speak of the sacrifices parents make for their children, but almost no one acknowledges the quiet compromises children make for their parents. So many of us grew up watching our parents struggle, and instinctively softened ourselves to spare them pain. We learned to

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to

Second myth... “you get what you work for.” Absolutely no empirical basis. None. Opportunity is stratified, resources are inherited, and the system rewards position more than effort. The playing field isn’t level, it’s engineered.

Everything we produce is collective. Your laptop isn’t the result of one genius, it’s thousands of years of serial human knowledge. The idea of “individual achievement” is a fable used to rationalise extreme wealth concentration.

Swiss academic Rita Kesselring published this book which draws a direct line between extraction & poverty in Solwezi, Zambia and material wealth in Switzerland. I will add a link for the free PDF in the next tweet

Day 3 of explaining how somethings in this world work. So you can ask “why”. As it stands today, Africa’s GDP sits at $2.8T. Yes the entire continent. 50% of this GDP comes from 3 Countries out of 54, it used to be 4, For context & scale Apple is valued at $4.1T.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Your worth is not determined by your job, your bank account or your ability to produce for capitalism. Disabled people have worth. Children have worth. The elderly have worth. The homeless have worth. Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.

I’m honestly not surprised. Africa has always been treated like a testing ground for Western corporations, and Nestlé is just the latest proof. They deliberately load their baby cereals with added sugar for African markets, yet the exact same products are sold sugar-free in

Legal does not mean right. It was once legal to buy and sell human beings. Legality is a matter of power not morality.

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Dries, Africa isn’t poor because it’s “full of Africans.” It’s poor because your heroes looted it, murdered millions for rubber, and left it with 17 college grads in 1960. That “paradise” ran on corpses and your king’s bank account. Meanwhile, you had your jail time suspended,

BURKINA FASO’S🇧🇫 CAPTAIN IBRAHIM TRAORE: ‘I can tell you that so-called friends of Burkina Faso who have been here for a long time are sucking our wealth…this is going to stop. We are going to withdraw the mining licenses…we’re going to mine it ourselves.’ If the US attacks

“You strangle us for forty years and then criticize us for the way we breathe." — Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba

“Democracy” is incoming